Monday, June 7, 2010

[ZESTCaste] Dalit students face fee crisis June 6th, 2010

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/dalit-students-face-fee-crisis-213

Dalit students face fee crisis June 6th, 2010
DC Correspondent

June 5: Poverty-stricken dalit students, pursuing their postgraduation
at the Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, have
accused the management of indulging in coercive practices, including
withholding the marksheets, to collect the tuition fee. The students
are on the verge of discontinuing their studies.

The institute, one of the 16 blacklisted deemed universities,
functioning near the Rajiv Gandhi memorial in Sriperumpudur, offers
postgraduation courses in five streams, including youth empowerment,
gender studies, life skill education, career counselling and local
governance.

According to the affected students, they had quit their jobs to join
the course following an announcement by the institute that dalit
students would be exempted from paying the tuition fee. "During the
last two semesters, the management did not ask us to pay the fees.
Only after the new director assumed office, the institute has started
demanding fees. If they had asked for fees earlier, we would not have
joined the course. All of us are first generation graduates, hailing
from very poor families. We have no choice but to discontinue the
course," said a student requesting anonymity.

Pointing out that the institute's brochure highlights the exemption of
SC and ST students from paying the fee, another student rued that they
could not apply for scholarship now as the time had lapsed.

"The management has withheld the results for the third semester. We
don't know whether we have cleared all the papers. We are not in a
position to apply for re-examination even if we have failed," a
student complained, adding that it was impossible to pay more than Rs
12,000 now. The students said the management had assured employment on
completion of the course besides providing free education. Nearly 30
aggrieved students were vexed with the attitude of the management and
are planning to complain to higher officials about the sudden change
in policy.


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